I don't know if you had a chance to review Oracle's latest pricing announcement, but it looks like consumers are going to see a 15 to 20% increase in some database and eBusiness applications.  15 to 20% in a down economy is a tad extreme.  From a partner prospective - This could have a ripple effort on your future business.

 http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/19/Oracle_raises_prices_significantly_for_some_products_1.html

If you haven't had the opportunity to checkout SQL Server lately - please do so.  From advanced application development, data warehousing,  business intelligence's and OLTP - SQL Server 2008 is a great platform for the partner community to build and deploy solutions on (and we didn't raise the price).

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx